03474nam 2200589 450 991045304440332120200520144314.094-012-0948-0(CKB)2550000001118710(EBL)1402869(OCoLC)858764920(SSID)ssj0001169820(PQKBManifestationID)11678313(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001169820(PQKBWorkID)11166239(PQKB)10856389(MiAaPQ)EBC1402869(Au-PeEL)EBL1402869(CaPaEBR)ebr10764747(CaONFJC)MIL519183(EXLCZ)99255000000111871020130705d2013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransitions emerging women writers in German-language literature /edited by Valerie Heffernan & Gillian PyeAmsterdam ;New York :Rodopi,2013.1 online resource (235 p.)German monitor ;no. 76International conference proceedings.90-420-3689-3 1-299-87932-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Trends and transitions in contemporary German-language writing by women /Valerie Heffernan & Gillian Pye --The re-construction and deconstruction of a family narrative: Eva Menasse's Vienna /Daphne Seemann --No place like home? Eleonora Hummel and the Russian German past /Linda Shortt --Perspectives on the borderline: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer /Valerie Heffernan --Sewing an account of oneself: materiality, femininity, and Germaness in Larissa Boehning's Lichte Stoffe /Emily Jeremiah --Jenny Erpenbeck and the life of things /Gillian Pye --New-economy zombies: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht /Elaine Martin --Illness, creativity and self-discovery in Lea Gottheil's Sommervogel /Siobhan Donovan --Writing on the threshold: memory, language and identity in Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht /Deirdre Byrnes --Politicising desire in Juli Zeh's Spieltrieb /Carrie Smith-Prei & Lars Richter --Cartographies of self: Ilma Rakusa's autobiographical narrative Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen /Carmel Finnan.This volume introduces ten emerging voices in German-language literature by women. Their texts speak to the diverse modalities of transition that characterise society and culture in the twenty-first century, such as the adaptation to evolving political and social conditions in a newly united Germany; globalisation, the dissolution of borders, and the changing face of Europe; dramatic shifts in the meaning of national, ethnic, sexual, gender, religious, and class identities; rapid technological advancement and the revolutionary power of new media, which in turn have radically altered the connecWomen authors, German21st centuryHistory and criticismGerman literature21st centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Women authors, GermanHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticism.830.935Heffernan Valerie872722Pye Gillian872723MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453044403321Transitions1948417UNINA